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The MOP presents the first retrospective of David Bailey in a stunning setting. David Bailey’s Changing Fashion is a landmark exhibition celebrating the transformational impact of Bailey’s photography in the 1960s and 1970s.
Trading the posed studio environment for the gritty reality of the streets, Bailey took the fashion world by storm. His work with his first great muse, Jean Shrimpton, set the revolutionary tone for the decade to come. Bailey is a master of musical portraiture. An enthusiastic trumpet player in his youth, he has an instinctive understanding of what makes musicians tick. His earliest images of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones capture precisely the differences between the bands. In Martin Harrison’s words, “The Stones loose and cavalier, Beatles buttoned up and controlled.” His early work with both bands laid the foundation for the British invasion of New York.
Bailey became not only the preeminent photographer at Vogue but a celebrity in his own right. His... more
